TAKAPUNA TELEPHONES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19567, 21 February 1927, Page 10

TAKAPUNA TELEPHONES.

CHANGE TO AUTOMATIC. ALTERATION THIS EVENING. After midnight to-night toll calls to Takapuna will become a thing. of the past, for at that hour the telephone system will be switched over from manuqj to automatic. Over 300 subscribers , will be affected by the change. Apart from the installation of the telephones, the , preliminaries to the chango required much delicate. work, which has occupied several months. The operation , that will change the system will bo a simple one. The wires will be cut off from the manual excliange and the whole system will chango over automatically. With the inclusion of the Takapuna telephones on tbo automatic exchange the total number of automatic telephones in Auckland is well over 11,500, not including the many switch telephones and non-listed lines. Even with this number, which is being catered for in such a manner that complaint!- are very few and far between, thero is still a considerable waiting list. Prospective subscribers are chiefly in the Mouth Eden, Kemuera and Ponsonby districts, where the growth of the system has been so great as to necessitate additions to the existing exchanges. After to-night only the Birkenhead, Avondale, Otahuhu, Henderson, Papatoetoe and St. Ileliers exchanges will have manual systems.